Quoth Rod Whitworth at 2008-04-09 08:04...
Matthew, you are pretty new here so I'll be kind.
Read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Why
For this, I apologise. I am currently in the situation that I don't
know where to look for what. I might try writing a "OpenBSD for Linux
escapees" somewhere down the track, because that's what I really need.
Also Search The Fine Archives
I now discover that they are under a different domain - which is why the
site search wasn't pulling up much. I must pull out my copy of 'Google
Hacks' and see if there is a way that an aggregated site search can be
done that pulls in the list archives as well.
The GENERIC kernel has been compiled with all the right flags. The
article you cite was never good advice and furthermore it is going on 8
years old.
It's going to take me a while to get used to having a kernel that I
don't HAVE to touch - not that I'm complaining!
Don't do that either without a better reason. Postfix, for example,
comes as a package in OpenBSD. Two versions (stable and snapshot, both
good enough to use in critical service) and several flavours. Look at
http://openports.se/mail/postfix/snapshot for a clue.
Postfix I can probably take from a package. However, this server will
need to duplicate the environment on my two Internet-facing Linodes
(Linux virtual servers), plus my laptop, which is my main development
platform.
Apache and MySQL have to be hand-builds - my Apache installation is
configured for a very specific environment (and all my apps would break
if chrooted) and I have applications that rely on specific Apache
modules. MySQL - well - I use 5.1 and that's not a production release,
but has features that I need in my development environment. I'll
probably get yelled at now, having entered a security conscious|paranoid
community, but it would take MONTHS to change my environment and re-code
everything to work otherwise. It is also a bit of a non-issue as
regards this server - it's on an intranet with one user that logs in - me.
From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?
No, but when I first came here, I was fascinated by the way water goes
down the plughole the other way round.
Thanks all for your replies and patience.
Cheers
M
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